PRESS RELEASEPRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation receives funds from $554 million settlement WINDOW ROCK, Arz. (11-7-14) – Speaker Pro Tem LoRenzo Bates (Nenahnezad, Newcomb, San Juan, Tiis Tsoh Sikaad, Tse’Daa’Kaan, Upper Fruitland) and Navajo Nation Controller Mark Grant on Friday, confirmed that the Navajo Nation has received settlement funds from the single largest resolution in […]
PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation continues to push for end to livestock impoundments despite Hopi chairman’s refusal to meet with Navajo Nation leaders WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (11-7-14) – On Oct. 30, Speaker Pro Tem LoRenzo Bates (Nenahnezad, Newcomb, San Juan, Tiis Tsoh Sikaad, Tse’Daa’Kaan, Upper Fruitland) and President Ben Shelly issued a joint letter addressed […]
Navajo Nation presidential candidate Russell Begaye, who is currently serving as a Council delegate for Shiprock, N.M., announced that Council Delegate Jonathan Nez was his running mate during a 2 p.m. press conference at the Navajo Nation Veterans’ Memorial Park in Window Rock, Ariz. PRESS RELEASE – Begaye Selects Jonathan Nez as Running Mate Nez […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Here are the unofficial results from the Navajo Nation General Elections, which were held yesterday, Nov. 4, 2014. And remember, the elections yesterday did not include the presidential race, which will be held at a later date. Navajo Election Office program & project specialist Kimmith Yazzie stated in a Nov. 4, 2014, email, […]
Navajo Nation presidential candidate Russell Begage announced in an early morning PRESS RELEASE that he’ll be announcing his running at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 5, 2014, at the Navajo Nation Veterans’ Memorial Park in Window Rock, Ariz. According to a Nov. 4, 2014, Committee for Begaye for Navajo President https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xhIWpNuJXibG85SUNZYmExZXpfVUxCQkEyVDNBc00wajE4/view?usp=sharing, that the NavaJo Election Administration […]
Grievance filed against Navajo Nation presidential candidate Russell Begaye – Farmington Daily Times. “The whole thing, to me, is that it’s a ploy. … They don’t want me on the ballot,” Begaye said. When reached by telephone on Monday, McLaughlin declined to comment about the grievance.
About 70 Navajo people, many of them elders, walked peacefully from the Window Rock, Ariz., mini-mall to the Navajo Nation Council chambers. It took the group about 1.5 hours to reach the chambers because some of the elders were using canes. It has been the elders that were the focus of surprise livestock roundups by […]
The Navajo Nation Council plans to override Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly’s veto of their EMERGENCY LEGISLATION to add language to the tribal election code that would allow voters to decide with their vote if a candidate is qualified. Speaker Pro Temp LoRenzo Bates stated in a PRESS RELEASE that Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie, who […]
During the Oct. 20, 2014, Supreme Court hearing on a Writ of Mandamus against the Navajo Nation Election Board and Navajo Election Office, I incorrectly referred to presidential candidate DONALD BENALLY as the presidential candidate that sued the Navajo Nation. Mr. Benally’s supporters submitted the following unsigned letter that requested a correction. I also was […]
The Navajo Nation Supreme Court DISMISSED disqualified presidential candidate Chris Deschene’s appeal of an Oct. 9, 2014, decision by the Navajo Nation Office of Hearings and Appeals that he was disqualified to be a presidential candidate. The dismissal by the Supreme Court was made yesterday, Oct. 21, 2014. According to a copy of the Supreme […]
